Outside the Wall
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Crane Wilbur
Screenplay by	Crane Wilbur
Story by	Henry Edward Helseth
Produced by	Aaron Rosenberg
Starring	Richard Basehart Marilyn Maxwell Signe Hasso Dorothy Hart
Cinematography	Irving Glassberg
Edited by	Edward Curtiss
Color process	Black and white
Production company	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	February 8, 1950 (1950-02-08)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Outside the Wall is a 1950 American film noir crime film directed by Crane Wilbur and starring Richard Basehart, Marilyn Maxwell, Signe Hasso and Dorothy Hart.^[1]

Plot

Pardoned Larry Nelson (Basehart), once imprisoned for committing a manslaughter in his reformatory, leaves Eastern State Penitentiary after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, and has problems settling into the outside world. Determined not to fall into the clutches of the law again, he takes a job as a lab assistant in a country sanitarium. There he falls for an attractive nurse, Charlotte (Maxwell). Larry recognises one of the patients in the sanitarium as Jack Bernard (Hoyt), another ex-convict who has just pulled off a million-dollar heist. Bernard offers Larry money to take some of the proceeds of the heist to his ex-wife (Hasso), but when he does, she mobilizes her gang to try to get the rest of the loot. Sweet-and-wholesome nurse Ann (Hart) helps Larry to get out of the dangerous situation.

Cast

• Richard Basehart as Larry Nelson
• Marilyn Maxwell as Charlotte Maynard
• Signe Hasso as Celia Bentner
• Dorothy Hart as Ann Taylor
• Joseph Pevney as Gus Wormser
• Lloyd Gough as Red Chaney
• Harry Morgan as Garth (credited as Henry Morgan)
• John Hoyt as Jack Bernard
• Mickey Knox as Latzo
• Joseph Sweeney as Prison Hospital Inmate
• Tudor Owen as Watchman

See also

• List of American films of 1950

References

External links

• Outside the Wall at IMDb
• Outside the Wall at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
• Outside the Wall at the TCM Movie Database
• Outside the Wall at Letterboxd